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Harlot's Ghost
Praise for Harlot's Ghost
"[Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history."--Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World
"Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlot's Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer's imagination."--Robert Wilson, USA Today
"Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant."--Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday
"A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history."--The New York Times
Praise for Norman Mailer
"[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."--The New York Times
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."--The New Yorker
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."--The Washington Post
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."--Life
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."--The New York Review of Books
"The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book."--Chicago Tribune
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream."--The Cincinnati Post
Book Details
- Publisher: Random House Trade
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1992
- Pages: 1168
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.24in - 5.46in - 1.98in - 1.94lb
- EAN: 9780345379658
- Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Thrillers - Political
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What people are saying
“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.
@ratemyskyperoom @DorisKGoodwin Spotted among the bios and diaries of Frederick Douglass, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Obama, Eisenhower, Reagan, Lincoln, Churchill, etc: HARLOT’S GHOST; Norman Mailer (1991) A LIFE IN THE 20th CENTURY: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (2000) https://t.co/mgGLn8RYMT
@ProfTonyPollard I recently re-watched it, and it was a slog, especially the melodramatic family material. It tries too hard to be the 'Godfather' of espionage films. That said, the novel that it is loosely based on, Norman Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost", is much better on second reading.
Praise for this book
"[Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history."--Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World
"Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlot's Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer's imagination."--Robert Wilson, USA Today
"Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant."--Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday
"A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history."--The New York Times
Praise for Norman Mailer
"[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."--The New York Times
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."--The New Yorker
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."--The Washington Post
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."--Life
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."--The New York Review of Books
"The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book."--Chicago Tribune
"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream."--The Cincinnati Post
What people are saying
“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.
@ratemyskyperoom @DorisKGoodwin Spotted among the bios and diaries of Frederick Douglass, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Obama, Eisenhower, Reagan, Lincoln, Churchill, etc: HARLOT’S GHOST; Norman Mailer (1991) A LIFE IN THE 20th CENTURY: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (2000) https://t.co/mgGLn8RYMT
@ProfTonyPollard I recently re-watched it, and it was a slog, especially the melodramatic family material. It tries too hard to be the 'Godfather' of espionage films. That said, the novel that it is loosely based on, Norman Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost", is much better on second reading.